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G. E. ADAMS.

Sleeve Button.`

No. 240,875. 'Patented May 3, 188|.

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NFETERS. PHcTUTMOGRAPHE. WASHINGTON, D. C,

' IINrrED STATES PATENT OEEicE.-

GEORGE Et ADAMS, or rEoviDENoE, RHODE ISLAND.`

SLEEVE-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 240,875, dated May 3,1881.

To all whom it mag/,concern Beit known that I, GEORGE E. ADAMS, of thecity and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Collar-Buttons, OufButtons,Src. 5 and I declare the following to be a specification thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to that class of buttons and studs in which ahinged shoe is `secured to the postin such a lnanner that the shoe mayrbe turned upon the post and parallel therewith to facilitate the passingof the shoe through a button-hole.

My invention consists of certain improvements in the construction of thepost, spring, and plates attached to the shoe, and in the manner ofuniting and securing the parts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of thebutton,showin g slotted post and spring. Fig. 2 is apartial vertical sectionthrough the line xx, Fig. l. Fig. 3 represents the parts of thebutton--viz., the back,`post, spring, and plates ot' the shoe. Fig. 4tis a front elevation of thepost with spring and attached shoe.

A represents the front, B the shoe, and C the post, of the button. Thepost C is inserted in the slot of the plate or buttonback D, Fig. 3, andsoldered or swaged therein. The post has an openend slot, and has aVshoulder at the termination thereof, on the face ot' the post, designedto engage the spring. Itis furnished with projections d 'at the open endof the slot, to serve as pivots by which to engage the post to the shoe.

The spring a, Fig. 3, is curved from the projections e, near one end ofthe same, to the other end. The projections e are designed to en gagewith the shoulder of the post. The end of the spring projecting abovesuch projections is inserted in the slot of the button-back, and in thatpart of the slot designed therefor, `in such a manner that saidprojections engage with the shoulder of the post, and so that thespring, passing through the length of the slot of the post, enters theslot of the cap-plate c.

The shoe B is struck up with a vertical rim.

The plate c, Fig. 3, is made of just the size to enter Within the rim ofthe shoe, and is furnished with a lug or tongue at one end of theApplication led Marcil 18, 1881. (No model.)

slot therein. It is placed within the shoe, the tongue f projecting. Thepivots of the post are then placed upon the plate c in such a mannerthat the attached spring, projecting below the pivots, enters the slotin said plate, the tonguej' pressing against the concave side of thespring. It is fastened there by placing over the cap-plate the slottedplate b, having depressions which receive and secure the pivots d, thetongue of the cap-plate still exerting a lateral pressure against thespring, as seen in Fig. 2. Both plates are secured within the `shoe byturning over upon them the rim of the shoe.

The button as thus constructed may be readily inserted in thebutton-holes Qt' starched cuffs, 85e., by .turning the shoe parallelwith the post, and may be secured therein by turning the shoe at rightangles with the post. The pressure of the spring,in whichever way theshoe is turned, holds it in position. r[he front of the securing-plateand the surface ot' the springupon one side and the exterior surface ofthe slice upon, the other create but little friction when being passedthrough a buttonhole, unlike some buttons which have a projectingshoulder when the shoe is turned par alle] with the post, and which isapt to catch into'a garment when being inserted into a button-hole.

I make no claim of any novel feature in the fastening of a part or partsof an article ofjeW- elry within a cup or rim by turning upon such partor parts the edge of the rim, as that feature has been in common useamong manufacturingjewelers for many years.

I believe mine to be the only hinged button in which so great a lengthof spring is secured. Everything else being equal, the greater thelength of spring the more perfect and satisfactory is the working of theshoe upon the pivots. The spring placed across the interior of the shoe,as in some inventions now patented, does not work as well as mine.

I claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by LettersPatent- 1. In a button or stud, the slotted shouldered post C, providedwith the pivots d, ,the curved and shouldered spring a, adapted to befastened into the slot of the plate D, to extend therefrom through thelength of the slot of the IOC post, and to enter the slot of the platec, which is furnished with the tongue f, adapted to produce a lateralpressure near the end of the spring, substantially as and for thepurpose specied.

2. In a, button or stud, the combination of the back D, the slotted postC, furnished with shoulders and pivots, said post being adapted to enterthe slot of the back D, the spring a, furnished near one end Withprojections e, and curved from the projections to the other end, andfastened upon the shoulder of the post, entering the slot of the backbythe side of the post, the plate c, slotted and lugged, the lug adaptedto exert a lateral pressure'upon the 15 spring, the securing-plate b,furnished with recesses adapted to pinion the pivots d upon the plate o,the shoe B, the rim of which is adapted to fasten Within the shoe theplates b and c,

the shoe thus heilig attached to and inseparazo

